Overview

• He was arrested outside the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office in Guadalajara’s Colonia Zona Industrial and driven to the anti-kidnapping and extortion unit in an official pick-up.
• The Ministerio Público Especializado en Combate al Secuestro y Extorsión has charged him with aggravated extortion and he is set to face a linkage-to-process hearing.
• Authorities identify him as the brother of José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, ‘El Chino Ántrax’, whose leadership of Los Ántrax ended with his death in Culiacán in 2020.
• Preliminary reports suggest he inherited his brother’s cartel contacts and operated under the orders of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s faction.
• Officials view the arrest as part of a broader campaign to eradicate surviving elements of Los Ántrax and undermine the Cártel de Sinaloa’s enforcement arm.